Now here’s a different twist on scent!
“Scented Soap Operas are based on the fantastic idea that essences are like people and when they meet perfume happens.”
Winter Oils and Scents
It’s that time of year for bright and happy smelling oils! Citrus oils are yummy and are hard to smell without them bringing a smile to your face. Grapefruit, Blood Orange, Orange, Clementine, Lemon, Lime……how can you go wrong with citrus? Citrus essential oils are amazingly affordable which just makes it easier to obtain year … Read More ...
Nashville Wraps
Nashville Wraps
Presenting our Natural Botanical© Collection
Oooh I do love Nashville Wraps! They’ve just come out with a Botanical Collection and they also have the “Rainbow Packing Paper” that has a multitude of uses. You can also find Gift Boxes, Candy Boxes, Paper Bags, Plastic Bags, Gift Wrap, Tissue Paper, Wholesale Ribbon, Bows … Read More ...
Helpful Online Calculators
In addition to offering all sorts of supplies for the indie soap, product and perfume Divas, Majestic Mountain Sage offers several online calculators that are very helpful! From their website:
… Read More ...The Lye Calculator allows you to check or create a soap recipe to make sure that it is not lye heavy.
The Fragrance Calculator gives
Beautiful Beeswax
I have come across a site of interest for those who love their beeswax! Hiveharvest.com offers beautiful golden bars of beeswax for extremely reasonable pricing and their shipping costs are LOW!
Hiveharvest.com also offers:
Raw Honey Raw Pollen Hand Bars Beeswax Candles
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~Anya’s Garden~
Explore luxurious, sensual and exciting fragrances at Anya’s Garden! Anya McCoy, perfumista of Anya’s Garden as well as the head of the Artisan Natural Perfumer’s Guild loves to take the unexpected and make it something unique in her perfume blending. For instance – using goat hair tincture in her perfume “Pan!”
From now until … Read More ...
Opus Oils – 20% off!!
Opus Oils has an amazing line of perfumes. I am sharing this with you and hope you can find some fabulous presents!
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We want to wish you a very Happy Holiday Season!!!
Please keep us in mind for your special gift needs…
We would like to offer our preferred clients a discount of 20% … Read More ...
Go take a bath!
Check out all of the many, many bath salt recipes to choose from!
Bath Salt Recipes.
Let’s face it – sea salt is truly amazing. Just a shake or two of sea salt can transform a mundane meal into a delectable treat. A handful of sea salt dropped into a bath turns … Read More ...
Attn: Indie Bath and Body Product Makers
After the first of the year I’d like to start a monthly Craftgossip Bath & Body give-a-way. Prizes would be indie bath and body products! If you’d like to provide a prize for one of the monthly give-a-ways please email me ( [email protected] ) and I’ll give you all the details. It’s a win-win situation … Read More ...
Recipe: Peppermint Lip Balm
Peppermint Lip Balm
Makes 8 – 1/4 ounce tins or 4 – 1/2 oz tins
1 tablespoon beeswax pellets
1 tablespoon cocoa butter (deoderized cocoa butter won’t have the chocolaty smell, but that may not be a bad thing to have the cocoa butter smell in there!)
2 tablespoons sunflower or safflower oil
6 drops … Read More ...
CRAFTBITS Recipe: Bath Muffins!
This recipe is for Bath muffins or fairy cakes, You can embellish your simple muffins with sprinkles, 100 and 1000’s of even chocolate drops.
 Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups of Baking soda or Bicarbonate of Soda
1/2 cup of Citric acid
2 tsp of Almond Oil or Apricot kernel oil
1/2 tbs of … Read More ...
FREE Bath Bomb PDF BOOK Tutorial!
“Cracking, melting, crumbling, discoloring, or generally unpredictable bath bombs? If you have had trouble making good bath bombs consistently, you need this definitive guide. It is a little technical, but many people have found it to be the solution to their bath fizzy woes.”
Clickety-click bb-fastguide-dec2010 for a free 48 page tutorial on making bath … Read More ...
~LPR Give-A-Way~
Le Parfumeur Rebelle is offering another monthly give-a-way! This month’s fabulous prize is 5 mls of Sri Lankan sandalwood oil from Nature’s Gift!!
Enter contest here – Le Parfumeur Rebelle … Read More ...
~Luscious Natural Body Care~
Today, tomorrow and Sunday! In San Francisco you can visit Luscious Natural Body Care at the Green Festival!
Meet the Goddesses Aromatica Angelina and Julianne and sample some of the most fabulista products that Luscious Natural Body Care has to offer. Be sure to tell the girls that you heard about Luscious on the … Read More ...
BATH & BODY BOOT CAMP
By now everyone should have an idea that I am big, big, BIG on people who make their own products being educated in the subject before putting their first item up for sale. Here is a most fabulous class, or “intensive” taught by Grande Dame Jeanne Rose. There is nothing like taking a class … Read More ...